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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0479]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landslide knocks train off tracks wreckage of a crack north bound Kansas City Southern Passenger Train, which was knocked from the tracks by a landslide and plunged over a 25-foot embankment into a river near Sallisaw, Okla., Jan. 5. Engineer E Benjamin, De Queen, Ark., was killed, and Mrs.Ed Brennan, Kansas City, A passenger slightly injured. Approximately 20 other passengers escaped injury."
Date: January 6, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0480]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Enclosed pictures show scenes of the Santa Fe train wreck at Clinton, Sunday night. The accident was caused when the chain on a stray cow on the track derailed the locomotive, piling up the locomotive and 9 stock cars. It was a heavily laden special stock train bound for Kansas. The engineer Frank Galletly, was killed and two members of the train crew injured, some 50 head of cattle killed, hundreds escaped."
Date: May 4, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1108]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "What Happened When Tank Car Left the Tracks. "Bowlegged" rails, which gave way at the knees because the city is laying a sewer under them, caused this tank car to stray from the straight and narrow Wednesday on a Santa Fe siding at Fourth street. Losing contact with the familiar rails, the car got panicky and turned over on its side. It was empty, no one was hurt, and the car slowed a co-operative attitude towa… more
Date: July 21, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0477]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Cow on track derailed locomotive and a Stock car. Killed engineer Frank Galletly, two members of train crew injured, 50 head of cattle killed, hundreds escaped."
Date: May 4, 1932
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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